Sentence examples for to be abated from inspiring English sources

The calls for a wider purge are unlikely to be abated.

Officials believed the building was filled with a toxic stew of contaminants that would have to be abated before demolition could proceed.

Yoani Sánchez, a dissident Cuban blogger, cited this when she wrote the other day: "Under the strict canons of the socialist economy — planned, centralized and subsidized — self-employment has always been seen as an undesirable species of pest that periodically needs to be abated and occasionally even exterminated".

Based on a sample of cases, TIGTA found that in 78% of them, the IRS reduced or threw out its own assessment, leading to 68% of the assessed tax dollars in closed cases to be abated.

Under the strict canons of the socialist economy -- planned, centralized and subsidized -- self-employment has always been seen as an undesirable species of pest that periodically needs to be abated and occasionally even exterminated.

Sorry to be a giant buzzkill, but the long-term effects of these drugs are just too destructive to be abated by the addition of some organic food and a bit of exercise.

The downturn appears to be abating.

The legal problems don't seem to be abating, either.

But there has been some shift in opinion: hostility to GM food seems to be abating.

But in the past decade, and even the past year, the mystery has seemed to be abating.

In neighboring Guinea, where the epidemic started, the crisis had appeared, falsely, to be abating.